meatpackers http://www.npr.org meatpackers en Copyright 2013 NPR - For Personal Use Only NPR API RSS Generator 0.94 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:25:00 -0400 http://media.npr.org/images/npr_news_123x20.gif meatpackers http://www.npr.org Unlike Chicken And Pork, Beef Still Begins With Small Family Ranches The beef industry is shaped like a bottle: It starts at the bottom with 750,000 small ranches and ends with just four meatpacking plants processing about 82 percent of the beef we eat. Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:25:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/28/155843064/unlike-chicken-and-pork-beef-still-begins-with-small-family-ranches?ft=1&f=155863652 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/28/155843064/unlike-chicken-and-pork-beef-still-begins-with-small-family-ranches?ft=1&f=155863652 The beef industry is shaped like a bottle: It starts at the bottom with 750,000 small ranches and ends with just four meatpacking plants processing about 82 percent of the beef we eat.

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